NCAC I ACTUAL EXAM 1 TEST BANK 200+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
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NCAC I ACTUAL EXAM 1 TEST BANK 200+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
4 factors of pharmacokinetics - Answer-1. absorption
2. distribution
3. biotransformation
4. excretion
Pharmacology - Answer-science that addresses the chemistry, effects, and u...
NCAC I ACTUAL EXAM 1 TEST BANK
200+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
4 factors of pharmacokinetics - Answer-1. absorption
2. distribution
3. biotransformation
4. excretion
Pharmacology - Answer-science that addresses the chemistry, effects, and uses of
other drugs
Pharmacoepidemiology - Answer-use and effect of drugs in societies
Pharmacognosy - Answer-Drugs obtained from natural sources
Pharmacotherapeutics - Answer-use of drugs to treat disease
Toxicity - Answer-study of poisonous nature of drugs
Psychopharmacology - Answer-study of the effects of drugs on both normal and
abnormal mental functions, mood, sensation, thinking and behavior
Psychoactive drugs/psychopharmaceuticals/psychotropics - Answer-chemical
substances that cross the blood brain barrier. Affect brain function and produce
alterations in consciousness, perception, cognition, mood and behavior
Substance Abuse - Answer--any use of substance outside social norms and
expectations
-often involves psychosocial influences
Substance Addiction - Answer--behavioral syndrome characterized by overwhelmingly
powerful need to obtain and use a substance
-use dominates individual's life
Substance Dependence - Answer--state where individual requires drug for normal
physiological functioning
-withdrawal is primary evidence for dependence
Limbic System: Primary Functions - Answer--emotion, motivation, learning
-vital role in development of dependence
-appraisal of emotional stimuli
-initiation of emotional responses
-shutting down reactivity after external stressors subside
Two Stages of Withdrawal Syndrome - Answer-1. Primary/Acute: 2 to 7 days; strongest
symptoms
2. Secondary/Prolonged: weeks to months
Three different responses that drug interactions can have on the body - Answer-1.
drugs may act independently without any effect on each other
2. drugs may multiply the effects of each other making them more dangerous than
taking the drug alone
3. they can cancel out or reduce effects of each other in problematic ways
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